Bug#258647: libc6-sparc64 has no reason to depend on lib64gcc1
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 03:51:45PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Mon, 12 Jul 2004 09:17:27 +0400,
> Nikita V. Youshchenko <yoush@cs.msu.su> wrote:
> > > Nikita V. Youshchenko <yoush@cs.msu.su> wrote:
> > > > Package: libc6-sparc64
> > > > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-13
> > > >
> > > > Package libc6-sparc64 has no reason to depend on lib64gcc1. None of
> > > > libraries provided by libc6-sparc64 are linked agains this library.
> > >
> > > The problem is they don't need to be installed on sparc environment
> > > always.
> >
> > I can't understang how that's related to depending on lib64gcc1.
> >
> > None of libc6 packages on other architectures depends on libgcc packages.
> > And libc6-s390x on s390 does not depend on lib64gcc1.
> >
> > There is no reason for libc6 to depend on libgcc.
>
> Then is it safe to remove dependency? If some userland application
> need to use lib64gcc1, user has to install it manually? debian-sparc
> guys, BenC, is it OK? Nikita, please ask to debian-sparc guys instead
> of me.
It should be fine. libgcc1 gets pulled in by proper shlibdeps, so
lib64gcc1 should do the same.
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